"Mari Grana begins her account of an adventure that grew out of her desire to withdraw to the wild and that ends with a sense of homecoming and community: "I saw over a rise in a meadow a little stone cabin far in the distance. The landscape of the canyon - the rocky pine-covered ridges, t...

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1. Verfasser:	Graña, Mari, 1936-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©1999.
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Schlagworte:	Graña, Mari, > 1936- Hispanic Americans > Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.) > Social life and customs. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies. Hispanic Americans > Social life and customs Manners and customs Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.) > Social life and customs. Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.) > Biography. United States > Pecos River Region autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies.
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Zusammenfassung:	"Mari Grana begins her account of an adventure that grew out of her desire to withdraw to the wild and that ends with a sense of homecoming and community: "I saw over a rise in a meadow a little stone cabin far in the distance. The landscape of the canyon - the rocky pine-covered ridges, the long wide meadow with the escarpment of Rowe Mesa rising in the background - suddenly became the place I had dreamed about.""--Jacket "Once she had purchased the abandoned sheepherder's cabin on 240 remote acres of land in northern New Mexico, Grana began the work of making the cabin livable. With the help of local villagers, she plastered the mud walls, installed a cookstove, and cleaned the rats out of her storehouse. She began to meet her neighbors and to learn the human history of the area. As she became familiar with the beauty, drama, and danger of the natural environment, she also learned about legendary local criminals and ancient land swindles. Writing out of her direct experience of this landscape and culture, Grana lyrically describes a world where the village church comes alive on saints' days and the spirit of Begoso Cabin's builder, Natividad Ortiz, lingers still."--Jacket
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159).
ISBN:	0585200947 9780585200941